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Hollywood moguls David Geffen and Steve Bing are being credited with launching the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s gay marriage ban. In an interview with Variety, Chad Griffin, the former president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group formed specifically to support the case, credited...

The junior U.S. senator from New York and leaders of the LGBT community from New York City are set to meet on Sunday to discuss efforts to advance pro-LGBT federal bills in the wake of the latest court ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act. According to a statement from her office, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) ...

RelationshipsComments Off on Ireland: Poll Shows Two Thirds Support Marriage Equality; Official Expresses Support

The Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has once again voiced his support for gay marriage. Speaking at the International Lesbian and Gay Association of Europe’s conference in Dublin this afternoon, Eamon Gilmore said same-sex marriage is not a gay rights issue but a ...

RelationshipsComments Off on USA: Catholic Church Has Spent More Than $1 Million Fighting Marriage Equality in 2012

Forget that vow of poverty: The Roman Catholic Church has shelled out more than $1 million to fight various marriage-equality initiatives, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign. The study shows that the millennia-old institution has donated more than $1.1 million to anti-equality efforts, including ones ...

RelationshipsComments Off on USA: Preacher Uses Pro Segregation Speeches to Make Point for Marriage Equality

This is an inspired rhetorical technique. Just take any number of speeches from the era of the racial miscegenation bans, just cite the leaders of the fundamentalist right from the 1960s, and switch the terms and see the exact same arguments that were...